This triumphal arch celebrating the Sun King's conquest of Lille is a masterpiece of military architecture.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

This statue honors the thousands of Allied avians that served and died for France during World War I.

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

An astounding collection of taxidermy, fossils, skeletons, and even a few strange live beasts.

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

A sublime medieval path adorns the marble floor of one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in France.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

In 1927, a biplane disappeared while attempting to complete the first non-stop transatlantic flight between Paris and New York City. This memorial stands at the last place it was seen.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

The room where Vincent van Gogh died.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

His "Lionheart" is entombed separately from the rest of his body.

To the famous surrealist artist, liberty required two torches held high.

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.